Cooper Inlet

Cooper Inlet (52˚04'00" 128˚05'00" N side of Hunter I, SE of Bella Bella). Capt James Cooper, born in England in 1821, entered the marine service of the HBC in 1844. He was in command of the Mary Dare in 1846 and the Columbia in 1849. He resigned from the HBC in 1849 to become an early independent settler on Vancouver I at Metchosin, where, in 1851, he established Bilston Farm, managed by Thomas Blinkhorn (see Blinkhorn Peninsula). Cooper brought out from England, in pieces, a small iron...

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